St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-10-08
ANTE-LUCEM.
Everything is Corn Down Around
Sioux City, 10.

Life upon the road is by no means
long hours, broken rest, hurried meals,
and from one end of the weekltO the
other ceaseless toll, with no small
amount of worry. If it were not for the
little incidents occurring and pleasant
associations formed among our fellow
commercial travellers it would be most
monOtOnOuS.
spent last Sunday at the Commercial
in Sioux Falls. There were thirty-five
or more Knights of the Grip partaking
OF the home-like inequalities of that
excellent hostelry, and among them
two or three acquaintance.
Of the entire number there / do not
believe there was a single one but what
regretted when the time came for his
departure. To say that Len j. Clark
keeps a good hotel is poor justice. 1t is
an extra good one. in so far as Mr.. Clark
tries to make his house home-like and
comfortable. The house is clean, nicely
furnished, a gentlemen'S private parlOr
with easy chairs, rockers, lounges, ETC.,
well arranged dining room carpeted
with Brussels, and above all. nice
corps of dining room girls who dress in
uniform. One of the features of Sun
day dinners is the presentation to
each guest of button-hole bouquet.
During the noon hour an orchestra dis
courses appropriate musical selections.
The printed bill of fare for last Sum
days dinner was gotten up in the high
est style of art known to the printer, in
a single fold. On the front was pasted
beautiful, embossed card, while the
back contained a list headed ''Our
Guests" and represented thirty-SiX
commercial travellers, also the name,
Damon Division orchestra, which fur
niShed the music. The menu was SUI
perb. The whole furnished both food
and thought for reflection. Food for
the inner man, thought, and not the
most friendly, toward the man who
takes your 81 per day and gives you
scant food, an uncomfortable bed and
vile accommodations generally. Mr..
Clark considers the hotel about all the
as they stay with him, his efforts are
bent in that direction. Each month, for
several months past, one or two town
lots have been given away to such pa
irons as may have held the winning
numbers. One of Mr.. Clark's peculiari-
ties is to extend, without charge, the
Inequalities of his house to the wife of
every travelling man who shall visit
there to spend the day or Sunday with
her husband.
met an oldlsh gentleman who travels
out of Chicago and peddles furniture.
He had been down to Sioux City, La.
Everything was corn down there. Corn
furniture, corn clothing. corn hats, corn
hogs, and he had no doubt but blind
corn pigs filled with corn Juice could
have been found. Everything was corn;
both women and men wore corn jewelry.
Some one asked him how Chicago felt
about their Sioux City boom. Said he,
''there are many people i'll Chicago who
don't know there is such place as Sioux
City; it was not as yet being pointed out
on the school geography maps" But"
said they, don't you feel loss from
your packing busineSs?" No" said
he, ''you could drop Sioux City down in
one corner of ChicagO's hog bins and no
one would know it was there"
NJ. l.. Ryan, st. Paul. representing
the Vacuum Oil company; 10 Clark,
threSherS, and George w. Turner, MIN
neapoliS, representing the w. w. Sly
Paint company, figured among the
thirty-siX travelling men who spent Sun
day at the Commercial in Sioux Falls.
They all belong to that class known as
the representative commercial traveller.
If they ever had any frOlicS they per-
ished with their youth.
Sioux Falls can Justly be set down as
the best town in the territory, with free
delivery, a street railway line. daily
press, associated. 1t is assuming met
ropolitan airs of no mean pretentions.
hope to be present with large num-
Der of my fellow commercial travellers
to do honor to the president and his
good wife. l hope whatever action the
travelling men do take it will be of the
most simple, without ostentatiOn. but
with that spirit of earnestness due from
the people to the chief executive.
Is it not possible for the Northwestern
commercial travellers to get together
and perfect its branch of the r. p. A.
by largely increasing its membership.
1t should be done and got in good work
ing order ere the next annual.
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